APAN – Association for Poverty Alleviation Network, Kolkata

The main objects for which the Trust is established are. To create fund and provide loans and assistance and refunding deposits to the entrepreneurs, business persons, self-help groups(SHGs), cultivators, students, depositors and general people with or without security under mutual terms and conditions agreed upon to facilitate the poors and under-privileged people. To establish, acquire, takeover, start, run organize, maintain and manage polytechnics, industrial training centres, medical technician training centres, crafts training centres, business, professional and management training courses, schools, colleges, libraries, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes; hostels, boarding houses, guest houses, housing complex, housing colony and also training and production centres for the benefit of the weaker sections of the society.